After meeting with the manager and explaining the situation, Chen Hong finally understood what had happened.

This year, their main focus was on breeding rare fish species, as the number of ordinary fish fry they bred had decreased, making it impossible to fulfill Chen Hong's orders.

They didn't want to give up on Chen Hong, a customer who was particularly quick to pay, and hoped to renegotiate the contract with her.

The delivery of fish fry has been changed from 50,000 yuan per month to 50,000 yuan per quarter.

Moreover, the types of fish fry will become fewer and fewer, and more and more precious, from the sea bass, flounder, yellowfin tuna, mullet, sand bream, mudskipper, golden pomfret, etc. in the past.

Upgraded to include Golden Drum, Black Sea Bream, Red Sea Bream, Red Friend, Pearl Grouper, Cloud Dragon Grouper, Red Grouper, Blue Melon Seed, and some other newly bred hybrid grouper.

Chen Hong said she had no objection. She originally bought the fish fry to release them, firstly to enrich the near-shore fishery resources, and secondly to help the fish fry company grow.

She had been working with them for almost a year, and they had always strictly adhered to the contract, never falsifying or shortchanging her, and never cheating her out of her money.

As trustworthy partners, both parties were very satisfied, and Chen Hong decided to continue cooperating with them. The two parties signed a new purchase and sale contract.

Chen Hong concluded with regret that she often managed to catch many rare and protected fish species when she went out to sea.

If she weren't unqualified to fish, she wouldn't have released the fish into international waters; she would have preferred to bring them back directly to a fish fry company to be used as breeding stock.

Upon hearing Chen Hong's words, the middle-aged, handsome manager's serious face immediately turned into a frivolous one.

His face, with its crew cut and wrinkles, was covered in orange peel. "Ms. Chen Hong, no, no, we've been working together for so long, how can you still address me as 'Ms.' in such a formal way!"

You look so young, about the same age as my daughter. To show my closeness, I'll consider you my sister from now on.

Chen Hong waved her hands repeatedly, "Just call me by my name, isn't it more intimate to call me Chen Hong?" She thought to herself, "This is promising!"

"Okay, I'll call you Chen Hong from now on. Chen Hong, you don't need to call me Manager Wang anymore, just call me Brother Wang."

As you know, the main task of our fish fry company is to enrich marine fish resources and to protect and breed various endangered and rare marine fish species.

Most of our company's employees are researchers; they're really not good at business management.

National funding is limited, there are many research projects, and each project has a long timeline.

Hearing this, Chen Hong understood: focusing on research but neglecting business operations—that's why they have no money!

Chen Hong was unwilling to invest money; these researchers were all crazy, and no amount of money could possibly be enough for them to develop new breeding projects.

This little billionaire woman's wealth isn't enough for them to build just one project.

She has done her best to be able to continue buying fish fry from them.

Maintaining a research institution would place such a huge financial burden on her that an ordinary fisherman like her could not afford it.

Chen Hong interrupted Manager Wang's long-winded explanation: "Brother Wang, just say you don't have any money."

However, I really can't help you with this. We can purchase five or six hundred thousand yuan worth of fish fry from your company every year.

Using the money for charitable releases puts a tremendous financial strain on me, an ordinary fisherman.

"I really can't come up with any more."

Manager Wang's eyes lit up as he stared intently at Chen Hong, making Chen Hong's hair stand on end.

“I know you bought fish fry from us because you wanted to help us in this way.”

Although we are focused on our research, we are not oblivious to human relationships. Like us, you also hope that our country's marine fishery resources will continue to improve.

I've come up with a great idea that will allow us to achieve our shared goals without costing you or us any money.

Didn't you say that you often catch a lot of rare fish at sea and are worried that you can't bring them back?

That's easy. I'll process your onboarding right away, and you'll be an employee of our company from now on.

You can represent the company to conduct field resource surveys and scientific expeditions for unspecified species of nationally protected aquatic wild fish and other aquatic animals.

Manager Wang scratched his sparse hair, making his forehead increasingly shiny.

"Why didn't we think of this method sooner?"

Normally, we need to hunt artificially bred nationally protected wild fish, which takes a long time, manpower, and resources to find them.

"Nowhere else can you fishermen hunt as quickly and easily as you do!"

Chen Hong was secretly delighted: From now on, she could openly bring back all kinds of rare fish species to China!

Before Chen Hong could even smile, she heard Manager Wang say again, "Chen Hong, I have to remind you."

If you discover rare protected fish species in the open sea, you must report it to your company first.

The company does need to hunt, but it must report to the fisheries authorities for approval; fishing is not allowed before approval is granted.

Even if it is approved, large-scale fishing is not allowed; only a certain quantity can be caught for artificial breeding.

After the catch, necessary marking, sampling, and water-removal measurements must be taken.

When Chen Hong heard how troublesome it was, she wanted to back out.

She wasn't a real researcher, so she really couldn't handle these detailed follow-up tasks.

Manager Wang realized that she was indeed in a difficult position, so he had no choice but to settle for second best.